Corset



Patented. Feb. 2|, |899.

J. M. VAN ORDEN.

CURSET.

(Application led Oct. 18, 1898.)

` (No model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. VAN ORDEN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,851, dated February 21, 1899. Application filed October 18, 1898. Serial No. 693.866. (N0 model.)

T0 all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN M. VAN ORDEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a corset of novel construction in which the body is provided with a series of tapes, bands, or ribbons which are arranged upon the body transversely to the stay-pockets. These tapes are attached in such a manner that they will cause the corset to snugly fit the bust,while they at the same time so reinforce the corset-body that the latter may be formed of light and Ventilating material.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face View of my improved corset; Fig. 2, a perspective view thereof; Fig. 3, a transverse section on line 8 3, Fig. l; and Fig. 4, a longitudinal section on line 4 4, Fig. 1.

The letter a represents the body of the corset, which may be made of cheese-cloth, flannel, or any other suitable and light material.

Upon the outer side of the body a-are placed a series of spaced transverse bands, tapes, or ribbons b, between which the body ais exposed. These bands extend from underneath the front stay-pockets c to underneath the rear stay-pockets d, as shown. Across the transverse bands b and between the front and rear stay-pockets c d extend the intermediate staypockets e. These pockets e are attached to the body a by means of two or more vertical rows of stitching e2, extending along the edges of the pockets. The stitches e2 pass also transversely through the bands b, and thus serve to connect the bands, as well as the pockets, to the body.

Between the pockets e the bands b are disconnected horizontally from the body a, so that the bands will readily adjust themselves to the bust without straining the body a.

Thus it will be seen that my improved corset may be made with a light body, that it will snugly fit the wearer, is of great strength, and neat appearance, and avoids all strain or pull on a bias, as with the corsets of the conventional construction.

What I claim is- In a corset, a body, combined with a series of transverse bands extending across and placed in direct contact therewith, and a series of stay-pockets which extend at right angles to the bands, and which pockets are secured to the body from one end to the other; the bands being free from the body except at those points where the pockets pass over them, substantially as shown and described.

lSigned. by me, at Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, this 17th day of October, 1898.

' J OI-IN M. VAN ORDEN. Witnesses:

WILLIAM SCHULZ, F. v. BEIESEN. 

